Fernando Bellver
Fernando Bellver was born in Madrid, on October 26, 1954. Great-nephew of the sculptor Ricardo Bellver (author of the Fallen Angel installed in Madrid's Retiro Park), he has been very close to the art world since a very early age. ;stico. In 1967, at the age of 13, he entered the Madrid School of Arts and Crafts, where he took drawing and sculpture classes for five years.
In 1972 he exhibited for the first time at the Antonio Machado bookstore in Madrid. For some years he worked as a cartoonist for the publishers Bruño, Mondadori, Santillana and Anaya, as well as creating posters for films and records. In 1976 he joined the Dimitri Papageorgio Workshop where he studied engraving techniques. In the same year he met Gonzalo Cabo de la Sierra, director of the Esti_Arte gallery in Madrid, and they began a working relationship resulting in different exhibitions at the gallery and in the following years with individual and collective stands present at the ARCO fair. ;
Later, in 1982, he signed a contract with the Fefa Seiquer gallery in Madrid where he held several exhibitions until the end of the year. who in 1988 began working with the Juana Mordó gallery, where he held several exhibitions and participated in national and international fairs.
In 1982, he founded the Mayor 28 workshop at the same number and street in Madrid. Artists such as Rafael Canogar, Francisco Farreras, Joan Miró , Manuel Rivera , Lucio Muñoz , Amadeo Gabino , José Guerrero, Martín Chirino, Jaume Plensa, Andrés Nagel, Dis Berlin, Albert Ràfols-Casamada, Joan Hernández. Pijuan, Guillermo Perez Villalta, Juan Genovés, Pelayo Ortega, Hernán Cortés Moreno, Luis Eduardo Aute, Eduardo Arroyo.
